A great teacher never stops being a student.

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

There is nothing we can do that will bring us more in the way of rewards than the daily striving to become better adjusted, happier, more productive human beings. It’s a lifetime job and worth every minute we spend on it.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the door.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have now seen.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.

I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.

If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present...gratefully.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts, of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

The less you respond to negative people, the positive your life will become.

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.